Cloud Operations Senior Specialist

Company Description

Eurofins Scientific is an international life sciences company, which provides a unique range of analytical testing services to clients across multiple industries. The Group believes it is the world leader in food, environment, pharmaceutical and cosmetics products testing and in agroscience CRO services. It is also one of the global independent market leaders in certain testing and laboratory services for genomics, discovery pharmacology, forensics, CDMO, advanced material sciences and for supporting clinical studies. In addition, Eurofins is one of the leading global emerging players in specialty clinical diagnostic testing.

In 2018, Eurofins generated 4.2 billion Euro proforma turnover in 800 laboratories across 47 countries, employing about 45.000 staff.

Eurofins Technologies is a new International Business Line (IBL) within the Eurofins Group focused on the development, manufacturing and marketing of bioanalytical technologies and diagnostic test kits in particular. The business if primarily focused on solutions in Food Safety and Environmental Safety but has recently expanded into Animal Health and Clinical Diagnostics. Eurofins Technologies serves both external customers (industrial laboratories, governmental laboratories, service laboratories) as well as customers within the Eurofins Group.

Job Description

• Key contributor to enable a Well-Architected Framework of Reliability, Security, Cost optimization, Operational Excellence, and Performance Efficiency.
• Participate in the day to day operations and maintenance of the IT infrastructure in a cloud environment including log and system monitoring, end user issue resolution, backup verification, connectivity issues, access control management, email issues, virus and malware mitigation, etc.
• Utilizing various advisory tools such as Azure Advisor, prioritize and implement plans of action to improve the effectiveness of the Eurofins IT Ecosystem
• Be cloud engineering point person to support and developer team coordinating the Infrastructure needs
• Ensure reliability of multiple internal and external services across the application stack, including software, infrastructure, and networking (as applicable to service) including Kubernetes, Azure PaaS, and Virtual machines and networks.
• Develop automation scripts and infrastructure as code using Azure Bicep, Blueprints, and Powershell
• Develop processes for the inventory of Eurofins Resources to keep its components, such as configuration, certificates, patches, sizing, up-to-date and cost effective.
• Maintain the resource budgets to balance cost optimization with appropriate performance, security, and reliability
• Monitor cloud environment health using management and security tools and respond to issues as they arise; help build, test, and maintain new servers as needed.
• During major incidents, manage triage of technical diagnosis and coordinate with application support, internal IT groups, and cloud support.
• Create documentation, system standards, and SOPs within the organization.

Qualifications

• B.S. or equivalent in the field of Computer Science and/or Engineering
• 5 years of experience as a Software, Infrastructure, or Network Engineer and 2 years working as a Azure cloud engineer or devops responsibilities
• Advanced experience of at least one of the following, and basic experience of the others
  • Automation of Azure resource creation (ARM, Bicep, Blueprints, CLI, Teraform, …)
  • Virtual Networking including peering, private link service in a multi-tenant environments
  • Database experience (SQL or No-SQL)
  • Unix and Windows adminstration
  • Developing Standard Operating Procedures
  • Wiki Development
• Public Cloud experience (Azure preferred)
• Advanced experience with a scripting language (PowerShell preferred)
• Experience in both Kanban and Scrum lifecycles
• Strong knowledge of cloud, application, and infrastructure architectures

• Experience with Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment
• Extensive understanding of kubernetes
• Understanding of resource costing, performance evaluation
• Azure Security
• Experience in larger IT organizations (over 100  people)

Additional Information

Position is full-time, Monday-Friday, 8 a.m.- 5 p.m. Individuals in the Lancaster, PA area are encouraged to apply.

 As a Eurofins at Lancaster Laboratories employee, you will become part of a company that has received national recognition as a great place to work.  We offer excellent full-time benefits including:

• Excellent full time benefits including comprehensive medical coverage, dental, and vision options
• Life and disability insurance
• 401(k) with company match
• Paid vacation and